Publications

Forthcoming & Recent (Mostly) Nonfiction

• Cancer, Hereditary | Flare: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Told in Flash Narratives | Ad Hoc Fiction (Forthcoming TBD)

• Messages From The Psychic Capital of the World | Becoming Real: Women Reclaim the Power of the Imagined Through Speculative Nonfiction | Regal House Press (10/1/24)

• The Power of Giving Yourself Permission | AuthorAccelerator.com | Guest essay (3/1/24)

• 5 Ways to Make a Writing Retreat “Pay Off” | JaneFriedman.com | Guest essay (1/23/24)

• The Best Part of My Solo Writing Retreat | WritingRetreatDirectory.com | Guest essay (1/17/24)

• The Cartography of Uncertainty | kerning a space for words no. 4 | Essay on theme: The Body as Evidence (12/1/23)

• Time Well Spent (at Sea): A Live Report | Brevity Blog | Craft essay (11/21/23)

• The Line of Time | 50-Word Stories of 2023: Microfiction for Lovers of Quick Reads | Vine Leaves Press (11/7/23)

• On bending genres and expectations: An interview with Ana María Caballero | Brevity Blog | Author interview (10/19/23)

• How to Differentiate Between Desire and Desperation in Pursuit of Publication | JaneFriedman.com | Craft essay (4/6/23)

• Holding Hands | Journal of Compressed Creative Arts | Micro essay (3/13/23)

• Am I The Asshole? | South Florida Poetry Journal | Flash Fiction (2/28/23)

• Air Streaming | Paragraph Planet | 75-word paragraph (11/12/22)

• The Power of Constraints to Unlock Creativity | Brevity Blog | Craft essay (10/12/22)

• (After)Math | Stranged Writing: A Literary Taxonomy | The Gravity of the Thing (10/11/22)

  • finalist for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the anthologies category!

• Without Words | Five Minute Lit | 100 words (9/26/22)

• Receipts | Sweet Lit | Multi-modal essay (5/3/22)

• Test Result | Voidspace Zine | Blackout Poetry (2/14/22)

• True Colors | Hags on Fire | Theme: Expectations (12/20/21)

• Grief Is A Book You Can’t Put Down | Herstry | An essay on theme: grief (8/24/21)

• Twenty Questions | Reservoir Road Literary Review | Flash CNF (6/29/21)

• Midwessays Transcend | Essay Daily | For the #Midwessays project (5/15/21)

• Let Go | The Grinnell Magazine | <160 words on good advice I got in college (Spring 2021)

• Stranger Genes | Severance Magazine | What ethical obligation do you have to the biological family you've never met? (1/29/21)

• When Leaving Is Loving | The New York Times | Tiny Love Story (8/25/20)

• Five Ways My Nervous Breakdown Prepared Me for the Pandemic | Please See Me | Short essay (7/28/20)

Media Appearances

• Ep 208: Rinse & Repeat List Building Plan | Coaches on a Mission Podcast with Dallas Travers (4/7/24)

• Ep 208: Reimagining Career Trajectories: Insights from Anthropology, UX, and the Written Word | This Anthro Life (4/3/24)

• Alumna’s voyage has included stops in anthropology, consulting, and writing | Grinnell Magazine (3/5/24)

• Writing Retreat Cruise with Amy Goldmacher | Your Writing Retreat Connection Podcast (12/19/23)

• Sweet Connections: Amy Goldmacher | SweetLit.org (7/7/22)

• Ep 96: 4 Step List Building Plan | Coaches on a Mission Podcast with Dallas Travers (3/21/22)

• Writer Wednesday | The Detroit Writing Room (7/21/21)

• S1, Ep 6 | Anthropology in Business Podcast (3/16/21)

• Ep 25: Product Design Ethnography with Dr. Amy Goldmacher | Anthropologist on the Street Podcast (6/23/20)

• Interview | Workplace Anthropology Matters! (10/25/17)

Literary Citizenship

• Association of Writers & Writing Programs | Writer to Writer Creative Nonfiction Mentor, Season 20 (May 6–July 26, 2024)

Selected Anthropology Works

• Designing An Anthropology Career: Professional Development Exercises, Second Edition | Rowman & Littlefield (2020) use code RLFANDF25 for 25% off

• “Do You Do UX Research?”: Articulating User Experience Research and Its Value to Clients | National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Blog (6/4/19)

• Understanding Consumer Behavior | The Understanding Group (7/1/15)

• Practicing Anthropology in the Private Sector | Practicing Anthropology (36) 2 (Spring 2014)

• "Something You Love And Something More Practical": Undergraduate Anthropology Education In The Neoliberal Era | Ph.D. Dissertation (11/1/10)